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That's a good solution. I think you are very right...dating is about filtering more than matching. Just from my experience, the hard part is getting people to

by hooande 18y ago

That's a good solution. I think you are very right...dating is about filtering more than matching. Just from my experience, the hard part is getting people to accurately fill in all that information. You've definitely got the right approach though.

Alex3917 18y ago
While people do lie on normal dating sites, they tend to lie about predictable things: Men are most likely to lie about their height and income, and women are most likely to lie about their weight and age.[1] It's hard to say whether people would lie more or less on a filter-based site, but it seems to be worth a try if only because no one (AFAIK) has ever tried it. As for getting people to fill out the information, I think you could come up with some novel ways of encouraging people to add tags. As for the tags themselves, you could easily datamine hot-or-not to figure out the most popular 1,000 or so. [1] There is an academic study by Catelina Tomas (sp?) about this.
- wumi 18y ago
  I rather think this idea would be better deployed in an existing social environment. (Facebook, MySpace, Hi5, etc.) I'm not sure how much people would trust a NEW dating site, especially with all the information out there about fake profiles -- how will you gain enough organic traffic not to turn people off with fake profiles? And if you use fake profiles, then it's self-defeating, and although monetization should be easily achievable, won't help people find a potential partner. Why not a dating application that doesn't intrude in people's lives?
  - derefr 18y ago
    Perhaps, instead of specific people meeting specific people, people create a large database of "characters" (profiles of sorts), and then you select a few and rate yourself on how well you match each of them. You then select a few "characters" you like and rate those, and you are matched with people who are rated highly at being like those characters. Tagline: You can meet a person, but you're looking for an ideal. Why not admit it? (Of course, the ideals could become simplified, one-word-ified and adjectivized, and become tags. But the extensible system is more interesting in that it allows you to select a batch of tags at once. A character could still exist in the tag system, as a set of tags with weightings.)

by hooande 18y ago

Alex3917 18y ago

While people do lie on normal dating sites, they tend to lie about predictable things: Men are most likely to lie about their height and income, and women are most likely to lie about their weight and age.[1] It's hard to say whether people would lie more or less on a filter-based site, but it seems to be worth a try if only because no one (AFAIK) has ever tried it. As for getting people to fill out the information, I think you could come up with some novel ways of encouraging people to add tags. As for the tags themselves, you could easily datamine hot-or-not to figure out the most popular 1,000 or so. [1] There is an academic study by Catelina Tomas (sp?) about this.

wumi 18y ago
I rather think this idea would be better deployed in an existing social environment. (Facebook, MySpace, Hi5, etc.) I'm not sure how much people would trust a NEW dating site, especially with all the information out there about fake profiles -- how will you gain enough organic traffic not to turn people off with fake profiles? And if you use fake profiles, then it's self-defeating, and although monetization should be easily achievable, won't help people find a potential partner. Why not a dating application that doesn't intrude in people's lives?
- derefr 18y ago
  Perhaps, instead of specific people meeting specific people, people create a large database of "characters" (profiles of sorts), and then you select a few and rate yourself on how well you match each of them. You then select a few "characters" you like and rate those, and you are matched with people who are rated highly at being like those characters. Tagline: You can meet a person, but you're looking for an ideal. Why not admit it? (Of course, the ideals could become simplified, one-word-ified and adjectivized, and become tags. But the extensible system is more interesting in that it allows you to select a batch of tags at once. A character could still exist in the tag system, as a set of tags with weightings.)